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"I think it's doing very well. I'm pleased to see the concentration on semiconductors. I think this will help."
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"The first calculators tended to sell for $400 or $500. Today, you can get a pretty good one for 4 or $5."
"They were the largest semiconductor maker in the world up until about 1980. I'm not sure that that can be re-gained again, but their progress in the last few years has been very impressive."
"How are we doing in the electronics field as opposed to, you know, we hear how advanced the Japanese are? Do you think we're still pretty competitive? Oh, yes."
"It's true that the original idea was mine, but what you see today is the work of probably tens of thousands of the world's best engineers, all concentrating on improving the product, reducing the cost, things of that sort."
"My own interest developed because I thought it was a fascinating subject and something I wanted to pursue."
"It was really a very small company when I started and it changed very rapidly during those first periods."
"Somewhere in that 20-year period, I would assume that there will be some basically new approach that will begin to cut into it, but it's got a long time."
"I think I thought it would be important for electronics as we knew it then, but that was a much simpler business and electronics was mostly radio and television and the first computers."
"I think it's doing very well. I'm pleased to see the concentration on semiconductors. I think this will help."
"Well, the thought that everybody might have a personal computer at their desk or their home was certainly not on the mainstream of anybody's activity at that time."
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